Michael Hunter

About

I work with professional services firm owners, founders, CEOs, and the strategic and PE players that acquire them. My focus is exit readiness and exits: sharpening how your firm shows up in market, building the kind of business buyers pay a premium for, and ensuring you walk away having captured full value. My perspective is unique because I've been on all four sides of the table: as a buyer's advisor running commercial due diligence at AlixPartners, as a sell-side M&A advisor to founder-owned and PE-backed firms (50+ engagements and counting), as a client managing major agency relationships at KitchenAid and Best Buy, and as an agency executive at BBDO, the largest ad agency in America, where I grew revenue 25% for a major office. That 360-degree vantage shapes how I diagnose what's holding a firm back from realizing its full value. The earlier you start, the more of that value you keep. Whether a transaction is next year or three years out, let's talk. I do this work through Parallel-49, an M&A advisory firm focused on two things: helping professional services and agency founders get exit-ready, and representing them when it's time to sell.

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